BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street.

The girl, about 15 years old, was allegedly caught standing alongside men by the Islamists of Ansar Dine who now run Timbuktu.

"The Islamists charged that the girl was warned five times by Islamist police but she continued to speak to men in the street. After the hearing, the Islamists gave 60 lashes to the girl. The population did not turn out in large numbers to attend this flogging," said Ousmane Maiga, a Timbuktu resident contacted by phone from Bamako.

The public whipping took place at around 11 a.m. local time in front of the new headquarters of the Islamic police in downtown Timbuktu, next to Independence Square.

Bawss1: Primitives have taken over Mali.

noblezone:
And its our duty to make sure they don't take over Nigeria or at least draw boundaries.

Islam is on rampage!

Reyginus: Again, the 7th century men are progressing to the BC's.

noblezone:
And its our duty to make sure they don't take over Nigeria or at least draw boundaries.

Islam is on rampage!

ekt_bear: satanic religion

berem: Woman don suffer! Did they also flog the men for talking to the little girl? ISLAM-A-WICKED walahi!

that was what came first to my mind, why those men went scot-free just like that,who is free from sin, cast the first stone terrible i must say

sindyko:

Hw wuld u feel, if a girl of 15 year of urs caught with a guy severally, would u commend her for that?. Why would u deterrent against bad habit because that's wat u do severally molesting a girl of under 10 when there is no scripture of ur religion that curb it. It's a major phenomenon to deal or discipline a girl for that.

Billyonaire: What an irony. The girl was flogged, and the men were not. Islam is always pro-men and women are treated like animals. Imagine that black blanket they cover all over their body even under hot sun. Islam even permit men to marry many women as if women are goats that you can just buy and keep at the barn. Say no to humiliation of women. Say no Barbarism in Islam.